Two influences on charitable behavior are religion and attitudes about the proper role of government. … The single biggest predictor of someone's altruism, Willett says, is religion. … One demonstration that religion is a strong determinant of charitable behavior is that the least charitable cohort is a relatively…
Consider the facts: Tibet, at least 1,400 years old, is one of the world's oldest nations, has its own language, its own religion and … never been a Palestinian country, never been a Palestinian language, never been a Palestinian ethnicity, never been a Palestinian religion…
the mass of other students, we shall soften their asperities, liberalize and neutralize their prejudices, and make the general religion … a religion of peace, reason, and morality."…
be rigorously scrutinized when government intends to compromise or truncate the right, just as we do in the case of speech and religion … If the states violate your right to free speech, religion, press, etc., you can seek federal redress under the U.S. Constitution.…
This semester, I learned that one of my colleagues is teaching our Sociology of Religion course with two supplemental texts, neither … (The latter is an especially odd choice because it merely documents all the bad things members of each religion have done. … Because of my concern that Sociology of Religion could become a course in Sociology of Atheism I decided to set up a more balanced…
Now that we’ve broken barriers with history’s first viable female and African-American candidates, opponents of organized religion … of England, the President functions as head of the “Church of America” – that informal, tolerant but profoundly important civic religion…
This can be attributed to the rather simple fact that Christianity is the world’s largest religion. … But Christianity simply cannot be characterized as the religion most hostile to free expression. … Were he to seek to keep religion “out of public policy” altogether his goals would be laughable.…